Panops aurum
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Ordo: Diptera
Familia: Acroceridae
Genus: Panops
Name
Panops aurum Winterton, 2012 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type material
Holotype male, AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Darlington, 450 ft., E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro, 5.ix.1962 [-31.901, 116.081] (CAS).
Diagnosis
Eye apilose; proboscis longer than head height; body non-metallic; antennae red-brown; parafacial with yellow marginal pile; postpronotal lobe concolourous with rest of thorax; legs dark yellow, femora brown-black.
Description
Body length: 11.0 mm (male). Headwitheye apilose; ocellar tubercle raised laterally; medial ocellus absent; occiput brown-black, occipital pile yellow, postocular ridge and gena overlain with grey pubescence; clypeus length equal to oral cavity, brown-black; palpus yellow; margin of oral cavity (parafacial) densely pilose (yellow); proboscis longer than head height; flagellum apex of uniform width, truncated apically, flagellum red-brown; scape and pedicel brown. Thorax with postpronotal lobe brown-black; scutum black, scutal vestiture dense yellow-gold pile; scutellum black; pleuron black; coxae black; femora brown-black, apices dark yellow; tibiae dark yellow; tarsi dark yellow; lower calypter white with dark yellow margin; wing hyaline, venation dark; vein R4 without spur vein. Abdomen shape rounded globose, much larger than thorax, colour orange-red to yellow, dark markings anteriorly and medially, vestiture dense elongate pile, yellow anteriorly, brown posteriorly on tergites 2–5.
Etymology
The specific epithet is derived from the Latin, aurum – gold; referring to the distinctive golden setal pile on the head and thorax.
Comments
Panops aurum sp. n. is known only from a single male specimen from Western Australia. The fringing yellow setae around the oral cavity and yellow pile on the thorax are distinctive for the species.
Original Description
- Winterton, S; 2012: Review of Australasian spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a revision of Panops Lamarck ZooKeys, 172: 7-75. doi
Images
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![Figure 18. Panops aurum sp. n., male, lateral view [700495]. Body length = 11.0 mm.](/wiki/File:ZooKeys-172-007-g018.jpg)
![Figure 19. Panops aurum sp. n., male, dorsal view [700496]. Body length = 11.0 mm.](/wiki/File:ZooKeys-172-007-g019.jpg)
![Figure 20. Panops aurum sp. n., male, anterior view [700497]. Body length = 11.0 mm.](/wiki/File:ZooKeys-172-007-g020.jpg)
